A group representing secondary school students said today that it wil organize a "non-cooperation movement" to protest against the use of the video meetings app Zoom for online learning, over security concerns and the technology's links to the mainland. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, Zoom has become a popular platform for online schooling, meetings and press conferences. A recent report by The Citizen Lab found that meeting data was being routed through servers in China. At a press briefing today, the Hong Kong Secondary Schools Student Strike Platform said it had surveyed 12,000 secondary school students who are obliged to follow classes via Zoom, and found that 80 percent are opposed to using the software. In a separate poll involving 10,000 students -- about one-fifth of all form six students due to take the DSE exams -- 90 percent said they opposed the plan for the exams to go ahead from April 24.

Source: The Standard April 14, 2020 08:15 UTC